Order Microsoft Azure Plan subscription
For the general description of the procedure, see Buy subscription in the Customer Control Panel guide.
In this article:
Specifics and limitations
- Microsoft Azure Plan has only one period — the endless.
- Changing resources of a Microsoft Azure Plan subscription is not available since all information about its resources is stored on the service side.
- A subscription is free, and you only pay for the consumed resources (pay-as-you-go).
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The service provisioning may be delayed for a few days until Microsoft completes the reviews:
- The account data review. No further action is required in this case.
- The deal review. Microsoft may request a Purchase Order (PO) file from your purchasing system and additional information about the deal. You can enter this information on the order confirmation step or add it to the order later. If necessary, your manager will provide it to Microsoft.
- For the review period, the order remains in the Provisioning status, and the subscription remains in the Installing status. As soon as the platform receives information from Microsoft that the reviews have been passed, the order will be completed, and the subscription will be activated.
- After a subscription is created, the account Owner receives a confirmation email. The confirmation email for a new domain subscription includes the login and password to access Microsoft Partner Center.
- During the provisioning of the first Microsoft Azure Plan subscription, permission to purchase Azure reservations via the Microsoft Azure Portal is activated for your Microsoft tenant, as well as permission to view the Cost Management section (depending on the reseller).
Select domain
You need to select a domain if only you order the first subscription to Microsoft services of an account. For subsequent subscriptions, the platform automatically uses previously entered data.
On the Additional information step:
Specify a domain — the name of a Microsoft Tenant Name linked to your account. You can create a new tenant or use an existing one:
A Microsoft Tenant Name is a domain name used to order a subscription, for example:
- With a subdomain: example.onmicrosoft.com
- Without a subdomain: example.com
New Microsoft Tenant Names (domain names) are always created with the onmicrosoft.com subdomain. Existing Microsoft Tenant Names (domain names) may or may not have the onmicrosoft.com subdomain.
The domain name is also used to create users of a subscription (yourname@example.onmicrosoft.com).
- If required, accept the Microsoft agreement:
- Click Microsoft Customer Agreement and read the agreement text.
- Select the I accept the agreement checkbox.
Select subscription admin
- If a new domain is used — for your Microsoft tenant, a user with the admin@ name is automatically created and gets the administrator role.
- If an existing domain name is used — on the Additional information step, in the User’s email list, select one of the users of your Microsoft tenant to make this user an administrator for the subscription on the Microsoft side. It may be required first to follow a link in a message and allow the reseller to manage your Microsoft tenant. Ordering a subscription is not available until you grant the reseller access to your Microsoft tenant.